To *local* friends and those in the distance with long ears

La Flicka is heard today on the 3 p.m. KALW (91.7 FM) broadcast of the
Berkeley Symphony's season-opening concert last September, conducted by
Kent Nagano at the beginning of his 25th season there, see program below.
Alas, the broadcast is not available on the Internet.  Flicka may be
heard in person tomorrow at Temple Emanu-El, see
http://www.emanuelsf.org/events_concerts_meyer.htm.  (And on Jan.  24
in Columbus, OH, see http://www.csobravo.org/newseason0304/0304calendar.htm.)

The Berkeley concert:
Naomi Sekiya, Sinfonia delle Ombre (World Premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 1
Maurice Ravel, Scheherazade
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 1

Also, next Sunday, 1/18, at 7, Elizabeth Caballero gives a "farewell
recital" in Berkeley's St.  John Church (one of the best concert halls
I know: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/jmjohnpres/jmjohnpres.html).
The young soprano - the bright Celestial Voice in SFO's otherwise rather
dim 2003 "Don Carlos" - is leaving the Adler Program and San Francisco,
to find more performance opportunities in Europe.

(Today also, you'll be lucky to catch repeat telecasts on ABC of Michelle
Kwan's performance yesterday, winning her 8th US figure-skating title.
"The audience roared with adoration, their applause the same cadence as
the beats in `Tosca.' They rose to their feet with 30 seconds left in
the program, and their cheers were so loud they drowned out the finale
of the music," reports the AP, correctly.  That finale matched great
moments in any performing arts.)

Janos Gereben/SF
www.sfcv.org
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